Forwarded from EN EREBOS PHOS
“Robin Goodfellow, his mad Prankes and merry Jests; full of honest merth, and is a fit medicine for melancholy”, 1628
Forwarded from EN EREBOS PHOS
Simulations are internal representations of properties of the world, which are not actual properties of the environment as given through the senses. Representations, however, are internal representations of states of the world which have functionally already been defined as actual by the system. [ … ] Information available in the central nervous system never truly is actual information. However, because the system defines ordering thresholds within sensory modalities and supramodal windows of simultaneity, it generates a temporal frame of reference for itself which fixes what is to be treated as its own present. Metaphorically speaking, it owns reality by simulating a Now, a fictitious kind of temporal internality. Therefore, even this kind of presence is a virtual presence; it results from a constructive representational process.
Thomas Metzinger, Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity
Thomas Metzinger, Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity
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One of Nietzsche's most prophetic remarks was that Europe had entered terminal decline and that the future would belong to America and Russia. This came true during the Cold War, and after the confusion of several decades, it seems more inevitable than ever.